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Apache Cassandra, Part 3: Row vs Column Stores
9/7/2018
Row vs Column StoresWhen talking about data stores it is helpful to keep this image in mind.A disk read is an expensive operation and should be used in minimum to ensure performance of a data system. ...
Apache Cassandra, Part 2: Cassandra vs MongoDB
This series of posts present an introduction to Apache Cassandra. It discusses key Cassandra features, its core concepts, how it works under the hood, how it is different from other data stores, data ...
Apache Cassandra, Part 1: Introduction and Key Features
Apache Cassandra, Part 6: Time Series Modelling
Scaling Time Series Data Storage — Part I
Scaling Time Series Data Storage — Part Iby Ketan Duvedi, Jinhua Li, Dhruv Garg, Philip Fisher-OgdenIntroductionThe growth of internet connected devices has led to a vast amount of easily accessible t...
Eye or the Tiger: Benchmarking Cassandra vs. TimescaleDB for time-series data
How a 5 node TimescaleDB cluster outperforms 30 Cassandra nodes, with higher inserts, up to 5800x faster queries, 10% the cost, a more flexible data model, and of course, full SQL.? It’s the eye or th...
A rock and a hard place: Between ScyllaDB and Cassandra
9/6/2018
Cassandra is a poster child of the NoSQL world. Originally an open source project sprung out of Facebook, it has been adopted by the Apache Foundation and backed by an enterprise, DataStax, that also ...
Cassandra Hits One Million Writes Per Second on Google Compute Engine
Google is known for creating scalable high performance systems. In a recent blog post, we demonstrated how Google Cloud Platform can rapidly provision and scale networking load to handle one million...